Chris Butcher is the Track and Signals Maintenance Manager at Yarra Trams. Chris’s career commenced in England where he had a successful career in the insurance industry. Moving to Australia in 2013, Chris started his career in Transport. Chris gained first hand operational knowledge as a Team Manager with Yarra Trams in the operations team. Managing teams across 3 different sites in his first 6 years including opening the new Tram Hub driver operations in 2015. Chris has been a key player in the Enterprise bargaining that occurred in 2019, and is a lead negotiator for the current negotiations too. Chris made the move to infrastructure in 2020 seeking new opportunities and a new challenge. In the last 3 years Chris has held secondment roles in track maintenance, Program Planning and Managing Infrastructure renewals before reaching his current role. Chris believes that good management of people is a key pathway to success regardless of industry and this has enabled Chris to thrive in different disciplines. Chris has a keen interest in innovation and finding ways to work smarter to enhance operations
